Alumina vs Silica - What's the difference?
alumina | silica |
Silicon dioxide.
Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 2:
As nouns the difference between alumina and silica
is that alumina is aluminum oxide used especially in mining, material sciences and ceramics while silica is silica.silica
English
Noun
- Its Blair County property was sited at the foot of ganister-covered Dunnings Mountain to compete with the Mount Union plants making silica bricks for the steel industry.